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Would You Like to Become A Shareholder in a Piece of Art?

Published by Ian Jackson on March 10, 2010 21:07 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A SHAREHOLDER IN A PIECE OF ART? HOW LONG CAN YOU CONCENTRATE ON A SINGLE POSE FOR, WITHOUT MOVING? DO YOU HAVE A MOBILE PHONE?

AFOUNDATION IS WORKING WITH ARTIST REBECCA LENNON TO RECREATE A STILL IMAGE AS A LIVE PERFORMANCE AND FILM AND WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO TAKE PART!

CAN YOU JOIN US FOR TWO 4 HOUR SESSIONS ON MARCH 29th AND APRIL 8th 2010? THE ARTWORK, TITLED ‘I COULD NEVER LIVE LIKE YOU DO’ WILL BE EXHIBITED AT AFOUNDATION LIVERPOOL AS PART OF THEIR UPCOMING ‘THE ECONOMY OF THE GIFT’ EXHIBITION OPENING 8th APRIL.

YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH A SPECIAL LUNCH, A DVD OF THE FILM AND A SHARE IN THE VALUE OF THE FINAL PERFORMANCE ARTWORK. PLEASE CONTACT REBECCA LENNON  rebeccalennon@yahoo.co.uk 07767 608749 BY 15 MARCH TO TAKE PART

Published by Ian Jackson on March 10, 2010 21:07 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

200 Participants Needed for A Foundation Art Film!

Published by Ian Jackson on March 8, 2010 10:29 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

UPDATE: The details have changed, please see more recent post.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A SHAREHOLDER IN A PIECE OF ART?
HOW LONG CAN YOU CONCENTRATE ON A SINGLE POSE FOR, WITHOUT MOVING?
DO YOU HAVE A MOBILE PHONE?

AFOUNDATION IS WORKING WITH ARTIST REBECCA LENNON TO RECREATE A STILL IMAGE AS A LIVE PERFORMANCE AND FILM WITH 200 PARTICIPANTS. WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO TAKE PART!
CAN YOU JOIN US FOR TWO 4 HOUR SESSIONS ON MARCH 15TH AND APRIL 8TH 2010? THE ARTWORK, TITLED ‘I COULD NEVER LIVE LIKE YOU DO’ WILL BE EXHIBITED AT AFOUNDATION LIVERPOOL AS PART OF OUR UPCOMING ‘ECONOMY OF THE GIFT’ EXHIBITION.

YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH A SPECIAL LUNCH, A DVD OF THE FILM AND A 1/200 SHARE IN THE VALUE OF THE FINAL PERFORMANCE ARTWORK.

*PLEASE NOTE TO BECOME A SHAREHOLDER YOU MUST TAKE PART IN BOTH SESSIONS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT MIKEC@AFOUNDATION.ORG.UK

Published by Ian Jackson on March 8, 2010 10:29 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

‘A Curriculum’ and ‘The Economy of the Gift’ at A Foundation

Published by Ian Jackson on February 11, 2010 09:39 in News. Closed Tags: .

News from Liverpool A Foundation…

A Curriculum – PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED
A Foundation Artist Residency
In association with Saatchi Online and John Moores University

A Foundation is pleased to announce the eight artists selected to participate in A Curriculum, 2010 are:

Florian Bielefeldt (Berlin, Germany)
Noel Cluit (Blackpool, UK)
Przemek Dzienis (Łódź, Poland)
Myles Painter (London, UK)
Hannah Perry (Cheshire, UK)
Elizabeth Skadden (Berlin, Germany)
Emily Speed (Liverpool, UK)
Philip Root (Northants, UK)

These artists were chosen from a Europe-wide open submission for the new A Curriculum Artist Residency at A Foundation, Liverpool, taking place between 8th March and 2nd May 2010. The residents will be provided with studio space within A Foundation, Liverpool’s Blade Factory. Assisting their studio time will be a programme of discussions and tutorials from a wide variety of art professionals who are active as artists, gallerists, collectors, commissioners or curators.

Visit our website for further information about A Curriculum.

The Economy of the Gift
9 April – 22 May 2010, Preview 8 April 2010

The Economyof the Gift offers a unique experience for contemporary collectors in search of a boutique scaled art fair. It will present eight artists and eight galleries curated by Ticiana Correa and explore the idea of value in a time of market crisis.

Four English galleries from outside the London Orbital were asked to select four international partners. Participants then select an artist represented by their partner. In this process a discourse is created at which the concept of the gift is at the heart of the exchange.

Installation Volunteers Required

This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside an international artist to assist in the production of a large installation at the A Foundation. Jacob Dahlgren will be producing a large floor based installation consisting of a range of locally sourced materials. A workshop will be set up within A Foundation where his assistants will be sourcing materials, painting, cutting wood, building cubes and preparing materials for installation. Training will be provided by the artist and volunteers will be working as part of a team of artists and technicians.

Ideally volunteers would be able to commit to work between 4-5 days a week throughout March. All volunteers will be given a limited edition signed print by the artist and expenses will be covered.

For full information visit our website or email info@afoundation.org.uk

A Foundation
67 Greenland Street
Liverpool L1 0BY
Tel: +44 (0)151 706 0600
Fax: +44(0)151 706 0601
info@afoundation.org.uk
www.afoundation.org.uk

Published by Ian Jackson on February 11, 2010 09:39 in News. Closed Tags: .

Wrong Love at A Foundation 13/14 Feb 2010 – Details

Published by Ian Jackson on January 31, 2010 16:28 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: .

WRONG-LOVE

Tickets are available for this exciting live art event organised by the good folk at Come Into Land.

Is it pre-valentine, alt-valentine ot anti-valentine?

SATURDAY 13 February 2010, 21.00 – 3.00am at A Foundation
Liverpool’s biggest Independent Live Arts Event of 2010. WRONG LOVE is a night of intimate performances, site-specific installation, audio visual art and live music which will use the banner of an alternative Valentine’s Day celebration to ask questions about romance, sexuality, unconventional love and where art is headed in this new decade.

With over forty individual artistic contributors, WRONG LOVE is the first happening produced by the new live arts event collective LAND and is completely self-supported by three young creative directors in an energetic response to the growing desire for independent, self-made culture.

The event aims to showcase thought-provoking works from local, national and international artists while providing a platform for the live arts to reach a wider audience than ever before.

The night will include a bespoke hour filled with ‘wrong’ love poetry and short story readings from BRICKFACE press, a team of young, independent writers and self-publishers. Three hours of performance will follow, interspersed with heart wrenching ballad and instrumental pieces from young local musicians. The performance segment of the night will end with a surprise for all guests involved to be immediately followed by dancing until Valentine’s Day gets well underway.
This ambitious event is the first in Liverpool that will showcase contemporary artists with an unprecedented interdisciplinary approach.

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Published by Ian Jackson on January 31, 2010 16:28 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: .

VIDEO: In Conversation: Artur Zmijewski and Sebastian Cichocki

Published by Ian Jackson on November 22, 2009 21:09 in News. Closed Tags: , , .

A Foundation would like to thank all who came to our event, In Conversation: Artur Zmijewski and Sebastian Cichocki on Wednesday 18 November 2009 at CUC.
The talk was an excellent opportunity to hear Zmijewski discuss his work and motivations, and we would also like to offer special thanks to those who made the event successful by raising excellent issues and questions for Zmijewski and Sebastian Cichocki to discuss.

For those who couldn’t make it, or would simply like to see the talk again, the event is now available to watch online.

Meanwhile the first major UK survey of Zmijewski’s work is ongoing at Cornerhouse, Manchester until January 10th 2010, and we look forward to the completion of Artur Zmijewski’s first UK work, which has been commissioned by A Foundation.

Published by Ian Jackson on November 22, 2009 21:09 in News. Closed Tags: , , .

TAXED: The Grandest Slide Slam of Them All. Fri 13 Nov

Published by Ian Jackson on November 12, 2009 11:32 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: , .

taxed

TAXED: The Grandest Slide Slam of Them All

Friday 13th November 2009
A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BY
7pm, free
Curated collaboratively by a team drawn from partner studios and A Foundation, Taxed is an excuse and an experiment in increasing communication between artists/makers and organisers from the Liverpool arts community and beyond. In recent months we’ve ‘borrowed’ Sarat Mahar’s reading group format, Paul Butler’s Collage Party and Stadelschule’s weeklong celebration of hospitality and food, Gasthof. After 2009 the Taxed team
will shut up shop for a while to re-assess the need for such events and think about directions to move in the  future…Thankyou to everyone who has been involved so far.

Our final Taxed event to round off 2009, The Grandest Slide Slam of Them All (taxed off Art in General, New York) will take place exactly 10 months after we started the TAXED series with exactly the same event (kind-of).
A Foundation’s artist committee has set up a room containing 16mm slide projectors and laptops with data projectors, and invited twenty artists to each make a three minute presentation. We are seeking a critical audience, a
collection of individuals willing to make their opinion of what they have seen – to probe, to scrutinize and to lay themselves as bare as those who willingly serve up their ideas as intellectual sustenance for the ravenous horde! But if you’d like to come along just to listen, that’s fine too.

Confirmed slammers include: Richard Kingdom, Laurence Payot, Nathan Jones, Markus Soukup, Heather Corcoran, Hamish McClain, Samantha Jones, Mark Waugh, Choterina Freer, Jayne Lawless, Joe McNulty and Alice Bradshaw.

Published by Ian Jackson on November 12, 2009 11:32 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: , .

TAXED: Slide Slam 2 at A Foundation Fri 13 Nov

Published by Ian Jackson on November 9, 2009 16:11 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: .

FRIDAY 13 November 2009, 19:00 – 22:00 at A Foundation
A Foundation invites you to the last TAXED of 2009. This, the sixth in our series of events designed by locally based artists is a taxed version of Art in General’s Slide Slam.

Curated collaboratively by a team drawn from partner studios and A Foundation, Taxed is an excuse and an experiment in increasing communication between artists/makers and organisers from the Liverpool arts community and beyond. In recent months we’ve ‘borrowed’ Sarat Mahar’s reading group format, Paul Butler’s Collage Party and Stadelschule’s week-long celebration of hospitality and food, Gasthof.

After 2009 the Taxed team will shut up shop for a while to re-assess the need for such events and think about directions to move in the future…

Thank you to everyone who has been involved so far.

Our final Taxed event to round off 2009, The Grandest Slide Slam of Them All (taxed off Art in General) will take place exactly 10 months after we started the TAXED series with exactly the same event (kind-of). This time we call for presentations and information sharing not just from artists but from all kinds of creative practitioners, curators and organisers. We would like to know what artwork, exhibitions, shows and artists etc you look at for inspiration, research or enjoyment. What art makes you tick?

A Foundation’s artist committee is inviting twenty artists to each make a three-minute presentation. A Foundation are again seeking a critical audience, a collection of individuals willing to make their opinion of what they have seen – to probe, to scrutinize and to lay themselves as bare as those who willingly serve up their ideas as intellectual sustenance for the ravenous horde! But if you’d like to come along just to listen, that’s fine too.

All slammers will be confirmed in advance so if anyone is interested in presenting then drop an email to info@afoundation.org.uk

Published by Ian Jackson on November 9, 2009 16:11 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: .

Improv Dance at A Foundation TODAY

Published by Ian Jackson on July 11, 2009 09:55 in Dance. Closed Tags: , .

Short Notice – There’s dance at A foundation today (Saturday)

OPEN RESPONSE
Saturday 11 July 2009 3pm to 6pm, free
Physical performers, dancers and improvisers taking part in the 23rd European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange at Edge Hill University will create a series of public performance events throughout the industrial spaces of A Foundation.

Contact Improvisation is growing throughout Europe, and is taught and applied in a large variety of places, from academic settings to festivals and therapeutic situations. The conference, ECITE09, is a celebration of this diversity, bringing together practitioners of varying experience, teachingstyles, ages, aesthetics and interests in order to exchange ideas and develop this multi-disciplinary art form.

The performance at A Foundation will present the public with some of the finest practitioners of contact improvisation from across Europe and use the challenging spaces of A Foundation’s restored industrial galleries as inspiration and backdrop.

http://afoundation.com/afoundation/news.php

Published by Ian Jackson on July 11, 2009 09:55 in Dance. Closed Tags: , .